Chicago - Supply Chain Tour

Integrated Business Planning

Tuesday, April 4 – W Chicago City Center
172 W Adams St, Chicago, IL 60603

This captivating, forum-style event will deliver supply chain education, innovation and networking that not only will enlighten, but surely convert you into a superfan. Engage with leading practitioners, technologists, industry experts, and peers focusing on the most impactful trends in planning process and practices; digital capabilities; metrics, benchmarks, and analytics; and talent, transformation, and leadership. Space is limited. Sign up now!

Thought Leaders

Peter Bennett

CPIM

Senior Vice President of Global Planning at Cardinal Health

Peter Bennett, CPIM, is senior vice president of global planning for Cardinal Health. In this role, he is accountable for demand and supply planning; field inventory management and deployment; and collaborative planning, forecasting and replenishment teams. Prior to this role, Bennett worked in supply chain and logistics planning at Medtronic and served as a logistics manager in the U.S. Army.

Patrick Bower

Senior Director of Supply Chain at Actylis

Patrick Bower, a self-professed S&OP nerd, is senior director of supply chain at Actylis. He is a frequent speaker and writer, authoring the S&OP department for SCM Now magazine and contributing to many other trade publications. Bower was recognized five times by Supply and Demand Chain Executive magazine as a Pro to Know.

Carol Cunningham

CSCP

Senior S&OP Manager at Energizer Holdings

Carol Cunningham, CSCP, is senior sales and operations planning (S&OP) manager at Energizer Holdings. She has more than 20 years of supply chain management experience including distribution; logistics; inventory management; business analytics; demand planning; forecasting; and her great passion, S&OP.

Jill Hays

CPIM, CSCP, CLTD

Supply Chain Advisory for Amazon Web Services

Jill K. Hays, CPIM, CSCP, CLTD, is in supply chain advisory for Amazon Web Services and president of the ASCM Michigan East chapter. A value-driven supply chain professional with more than 20 years of expertise in an array of industries, Hays is passionate about machine learning, quantitative analytics, supply chain design and optimization, talent upskilling, and end-to-end planning.

Lineup

Networking, Information Desk and Hydration hosted by ASCM Chapters

8:30 am – 9:00 am

Networking, Information Desk and Hydration hosted by ASCM Chapters

8:30 am – 9:00 am

ASCM education
Digital VOR assets (EIU Resilience, Stability Index, Sustainability Readiness, Career Report, Trends, ASCM Insights)
Future events QR Code

Introduction, Tour Format, Trends Now

9:00 am – 9:15 am

Introduction, Tour Format, Trends Now

9:00 am – 9:15 am

Process and Leading Practices

9:15 am – 10:15 am

Process and Leading Practices

9:15 am – 10:15 am

Practitioner Perspectives Digital Vignette
Audience Poll
Small Group Discussion
Large Group Share
Take Home Tool

Networking Break hosted by ASCM Chapters

10:15 am – 10:30 am

Networking and Hydration Break hosted by ASCM Chapters

10:15 am – 10:30 am

Digital Capabilities

10:30 am – 11:30 am

Digital Capabilities

10:30 am – 11:30 am

Practitioner Perspectives Digital Vignette
Audience Poll
Small Group Discussion
Large Group Share
Take Home Tool

Networking Lunch hosted by Kinaxis

11:30 am – 12:30 pm

Networking Lunch hosted by Kinaxis

11:30 am – 12:30 pm

TECH Talk by Kinaxis

12:30 pm – 1:00 pm

TECH Talk by Kinaxis

12:30 pm – 1:00 pm

Bringing a Trend to Life – TECH SME Co-host
Audience Poll
Attendee Discussion – Table and Large Group
Insight and Wrap Up – TECH SME Co-host

Metrics, Benchmarks and Analytics

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Metrics, Benchmarks and Analytics

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Practitioner Perspectives Digital Vignette
Audience Poll
Small Group Discussion
Large Group Share
Take Home Tool

Networking Break hosted by ASCM Chapters

2:00 pm – 2:15 pm

Networking Break hosted by ASCM Chapters

2:00 pm – 2:15 pm

Talent, Leadership and Transformation

2:15 pm – 3:15 pm

Talent, Leadership and Transformation

2:15 pm – 3:15 pm

Practitioner Perspectives Digital Vignette
Audience Poll
Small Group Discussion
Large Group Share
Take Home Tool

‘Your Big Take-a-way’ World Wall Poll and Large Group Discussion

3:15 pm – 3:30 pm

‘Your Big Take-a-way’ World Wall Poll and Large Group Discussion

3:15 pm – 3:30 pm

Encore Networking Social Brought to you by Kinaxis

3:30 pm – 4:15 pm

Encore Networking Social Brought to you by Kinaxis

3:30 pm – 4:15 pm

Hosts

Allen Jacques

Industry Thought Leader at Kinaxis

Allen is an Industry Thought Leader at Kinaxis. Before that he served as VP of both Global Technical Operations and Biologics and External Manufacturing for Leo Pharma based in Denmark. He also served as VP of Network Supply Planning at Pfizer, and earlier in his career in a variety of roles at Wyeth and Baxter Healthcare. In addition to these roles directly in industry, Allen also served a stint at a vendor FusionOps/Aera Technology, where he was their VP of Pharma Supply Chain. He has worked across the life sciences spectrum in pharma, biotech, hospital, and consumer divisions and in the US and Europe. Allen has a scientific background, with a BS in Microbiology from the University of Maryland and doctoral studies in Biochemistry at Johns Hopkins.

Peter A. Bolstorff

CSCP, SCOR-P

Executive Vice President of Corporate Development at ASCM

Peter A. Bolstorff, CSCP, SCOR-P, is the executive vice president of corporate development at ASCM. He oversees the ASCM corporate transformation value proposition, which includes talent development and corporate supply chain performance. The author of Supply Chain Excellence: A Handbook for Dramatic Improvement Using the SCOR Model, Bolstorff has more than 25 years of supply chain experience.